Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-04
FAIR HARyARD,s ELEVEN

The Yale Football Team Anxious
 About HarVard's Team-Fears That
 Yale May Nos be Able to Defeat Her.
 The Yale football team is practising daily at the Yale Field. They go out every after noon and good sized crowd of students and others are also there. The amateur photog- raphers are kept busy securing pictures of the various members of the team to show ad- miring friends. The interest taken in the Yale team by the students was probably never greater than at the present time.
 Strange as it may seem, the principal in- terest among the students seems to center in the Yale Harvard game rather than the Yale Princeton contest. Yale men have feeling, which they cannot shake off, that the decis- i've conflict of the season will be between their eleven and their Cambridge rivals. Princeton is not looked upon as out of the race by any means, but Harvard stock ap- | hears to have taken a decided boom. The l feeling is that Harvard will place the strong l est eleven in the field this fall that has ever defended the football interests of the univer- | sity. Her material is unquestionably super l for to that of Yale as Q whole, but on the l other hand the Cambridge men lack the ex- l perience of their New Haven antagonists and l the system of training at Harvard is away l behind that of Yale.
 1 Morrison. of the Harvard Medical school, I who was trying for the eleven and who 1 would undoubtedly play center rush, but who has now given up playing, was the l man of all men whom Yale feared. There is probably no man at Yale at the present
 time who is his equal physically. In addi- I ton to being remarkably strong he is an eX-
 pert boxer, which would be of great assistance | to him in the position he was expected to fill. | Corbin, who plays center rush on the Y ale ! al ia in Si atrAnpth. DnG | he lacks the trained skill and endurance of | Morrison. Holden is another man especially
 dreaded by Yale. If he once gets through
 the opposing rush line and has anything like
 fair start down the field, there is not man in the Yale eleven who can catch him, with
 the possible exception of Gill or Beecher. | Captain Beecher is doing nearly all the ! goal-kicking for Yale this season, as neither ! of the halfbacks seem able to perform this
 duty satisfactorily. Beecher cannot kick
 like Watkinson, but is improving every day. | He is making his old~tfme dodges and runs ! in practice and Harvard and Princeton will | fad him a very hard customer to tackle.
 He met with bad accident in practice yes
 terday which will keep him from practice for some days, and may quite possibly prevent | his playing this season. While rushing the I ball across the goal line, on being downed
 his right leg was sprained. He was at once | taken home in hack and medical attention | procured and it is hoped the injury may not ! force him to retire altogether from the team.
 His loss would, indeed, be irreparable, and
 without him the chances would be slim
 of beating either Harvard or Princeton.
 The work of the Yale halfbaeks is as yet
 very unsatisfactory. They play brilliantly
 at times, and again they make the wors:
 kind of muffs and misplays. Graves, the
 freshman halfback, is looked upon prom
 ising man, but he is apt to get rattled in 6
 crisis. Both men are fast runners, but theiI
 kicking is not what it should be-
 No one has been selected to play
 tullback as yet, but Williams has done | some good work in that position. The rush
 line is gradually steadying down, but the
 men still block badly and tackle either too high or too low. The rush line will be rather lighter than it was last year, but will have
 one or two fairly good runners to LII matters. Stagg has begun to train with the
 eleven and yesterday did some good work al
 half-back.
 ! Yale will probably play rushing game
 this fall and there will be very little kicking
 done by her half-baeks. Captain Beecher is ! teaching his men several new tricks that arc ! expected to prove very effective The tricks ! of the Yale football team are proverbial, but
 those of this year are expected to discount
 all previous performances.